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Eleven years ago Jill Rische and her husband Detlef were casting about for something to make and maybe even sell. Detlef is quite handy, and they got a book on how to make candles.

They made a lot of candles.

Enough to fill a…MORE

Jim Vatn, a lifetime Ballardite who had a hand in seemingly every feature that makes Ballard the neighborhood it is, passed away in his sleep Nov. 7 at the age of 66 after a battle with cancer.

After graduating from Ballard High School in…MORE

At 25, Morey Skaret had already "rode the rods" to Wyoming and back. It was depression era travel at its cheapest. Riding under the boxcar on two-inch thick rods was considered the most dangerous aspect of hobo life but this young man from the…MORE

Muscab Ismail attends 5th grade at Concord International Elementary School in South Park, and lives in the community, too. While the West Seattle Herald was covering the recent "Let's Move!" rally to fight childhood obesity recently at Concord,…MORE

Denny International Middle School is booked solid with its 2010 PTSA Read-a-thon Fund-raiser as students are plowing through pages throughout November to raise money to support Denny’s literacy and science programs, including the purchase of new…MORE

West Seattle Montessori School at 11215 15th Ave s.w. has been chosen as one of three schools in the nation to host a Pardoned Turkey All-School Assembly at the Delridge Community Center at 4501 Delridge Way s.w. on the morning of November 15.…MORE

“We’re going to swarm you,” Dr. Ray Jarris said, referring to future patients, at the beginning of a media tour of the new Ballard Swedish building that started on his turf as medical director of the Emergency Department.

Last week, I…MORE

The former Cafe Revo at 2940 Southwest Avalon Way is already underway as a new restaurant. Dubbed The Avalon the new proprietors have posted a letter in their window stating,

" Coming Soon to West Seattle Avalon…MORE

West Seattle author Conrad Wesselhoeft's book "Adios, Nirvana" was just released by publisher Houghton Mifflin.

The West Seattle Herald did a story about Wesselhoeft and how he came to write the book. Set in West Seattle it is aimed at a…MORE

By Steve Shay

If you ask Tyler McKenzie about his grandfather, he might dance around the topic. That's because his grandfather was Fred Astaire, and he is shy about discussing it. But he did, with the West Seattle Herald, and seemed to…MORE